The Adventures of Author Tristan Higbee

A Quick Jaunt Up Round Mountain Near Moab, Utah

This is a neat, out-of-place mountain that doesn’t get much attention. It should, though.

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I climbed Round Mountain the day after climbing The Cheesebox and Mexican Hat, and an hour after climbing Elephant Butte. It was the end of a great and highly productive two-day adventure blitz.

I first saw the mountain a few weeks ago when climbing Parriott Mesa. It’s just this random mountain sticking up all by itself in the middle of Castle Valley. I looked online and couldn’t find any beta or information about how to climb it, but it wasn’t too hard to figure out.

The route is pretty easy. You park your car and hike up a 4WD dirt road toward the mountain. Once you get close to it, you can pretty much just start hiking up wherever you feel comfortable. The true summit of the mountain is the northern-most peak.